The Connotation Expression of Makassar Culture in Novel Datu Museng and Maipa Deapati by Verdy R

Sys Rev Pharm 2020;11(12):1529-1534 A multifaceted review journal in the field of pharmacy THE CONNOTATION EXPRESSION OF MAKASSAR CULTURE IN NOVEL DATU MUSENG AND MAIPA DEAPATI BY VERDY R. BASO Abbas The Culture Sciences Faculty of Hasanuddin University - Indonesia Abstract article describes the connotation of language expressions Keywords: connotation, Makassar culture, novel Datu in the novel Datu Museng and Maipa Deapati by Verdy R. Museng and Maipa Deapati. Baso, which leads to Makassar culture. The socio-cultural Correspondence: background of Makassar in this literary work is a reflection Abbas of the values and principles of the main characters named The Cultural Sciences Faculty of Hasanuddin University - I Baso Mallarangang who has the title Datu Museng and Indonesia his grandfather named Adearangan. This research [email protected] explores the connotation statements in the novel in order to discover the principles and values of the Makassar people. This research uses the Dynamic Structuralism Approach in processing literary research data and is equipped with ethnographic studies that inform about the socio-cultural setting of Makassar. The theory used in expressing cultural connotations is Roland Barthes' Theory which emphasizes the interpretation of signs in verbal and nonverbal communication. The results of the processed research data are then explained descriptively. Based on the results of the study obtained a number of expressions, statements, and descriptions in the story that indicate the existence of the cultural connotations of Makassar people. Datu Museng and Adearangang show their entities as Makassar people wherever they are through actualizing the principles of they embrace, namely pangngadakkang, matutu, lambusu', barani, and kalumannyang. These five principles are used in actualizing the value of siri' or self-esteem and pacce or solidarity that always relies on Islamic spiritual awareness. INTRODUCTION expression of fiction. Understanding of the reader can be Literary works are human imaginative products that reflect obtained from the background of social life, life experience, the cultural value of a nation or ethnicity. As an imaginative knowledge, and social facts. The writer of this article is a work that is influenced by the author's social background, Makassarese who has a very deep understanding of literary works cannot be separated from the ethnography of a Makassar's ethnic culture through a series of life experiences, particular society. It shows that the background of the knowledge, and social facts. The background of social life as author's entity has a strong influence in fiction with a the Makassar people is one of the important reasons for the particular socio-cultural background. Literary works are writer of this article in ensuring the accuracy of the study of closely related to culture because literature is part of the ethnic culture in literature. product of culture and literary stories document cultural Besides culture, language is also an important part in the values. For example, Verdy R. Baso, who was born and media of literature. Language becomes a tool for an author in raised in the Makassar ethnic social environment, has a achieving the goals of the creation of his work. Language is strong imaginative power in expressing Makassar culture as the main media of literature’s authors in associating cultural in the novel Datu Museng and Maipa Deapati. Literary and meanings into the connotation of fiction [2]. Diversity of cultural experts such as Ratna [1] defined relations between expressing language can bring literary readers in situations of literary and cultural as a creative imaginative relationship emotion, sadness, joy, happiness, annoyance, anger, hate, and within daily life so that literary objects are sourced from the others. Connotative language is one of the expressions of community, the change from fact to fiction takes place language that is commonly used by authors in describing dynamically through metaphorical connotations. fiction. A language researcher named McKay revealed that a Although literary works reflect certain social entities, authors person's social role in society reflects his ability to manage generally do not express these entities directly or in real language so that he can influence others in his community [3]. situations. The genius of a literary author hides meaning and It shows that literary authors with their ability to express social messages in the form of expressions of connotation, language into the imagination of literary works reflect satire, metaphor, personification, and soon, making a literary themselves as part of a particular ethnic group. reader or analyst need to interpret the language phrases Literature as an imaginary product of an author who manages described. The interpretation accuracy of cultural expression language in documenting community cultural values shows in literature is also determined by the reader's understanding that there is a close relationship between literature, language, of the cultural background referred in the description and and culture [4]. This realation means that language becomes 1529 Systematic Reviews in Pharmacy Vol 11, Issue 12, December 2020 The Connotation Expression Of Makassar Culture In Novel Datu Museng And Maipa Deapati By Verdy R. Baso a medium to express cultural values in literature. Based on suggested that the motives of fictional characters in building this understanding, the writer of this article analyzes the story tendencies are inseparable from the cultural relationship between literature and culture by using language environment that shapes them. The cultural functions played as a point of view to object exploration, namely the novel by figures of fiction are expressed between metaphorical Datu Museng and Maipa Deapati by Verdy R. Baso [5]. This symbols and reality. novel tells the heroic attitude of a young man named I Baso This research was conducted with several stages that were Mallarangang with the title Datu Museng from the Makassar built from the thinking of Wellek and Austin [12] which aristocratic family in defending his dignity and responsibility explained that literature was built from a complex which is built on love and values of ethnic culture. The arrangement of words and language that required the acceleration between literature, language, and culture was creativity of researchers in determining the order of their built in the title of this article, namely The Connotation study activities. Based on this thinking, the writer formulates Expression of Makassar Culture in the novel Datu Museng the stages of this research activity according to the results to dan Maipa Deapati by Verdy R. Baso. be achieved in the expression of Makassar cultural connotations in the novel Datu Museng and Maipa Deapati METHODOLOGY by Verdy R. Baso, namely: Acceleration between literature, language and, culture in the 1. Read and understand the description of the story of the study of literature requires a theoretical foundation in order novel Datu Museng and Maipa Deapati. to produce an appropriate method of analysis. One of the 2. Identifying the position of the fictional characters of Datu theoretical approaches used by the writer in this article is the Museng and Adearangang in the novel's story social semiology approach by Barthes [6], known as 3. Tracing the cultural background adopted by the fictional metalanguage. Goring in his book titled Studying Literature characters of Datu Museng and Adearangang in the story revealed that Barthes took a semiological approach in culture of the novel by tracing hidden values or ideologies in certain ethnic 4. Mapping the expression of Makassar cultural groups. Literary works as works of fiction hide cultural connotations played by the fictional characters of Datu values in the description of events and expressions of the Museng and Adearangang in the story characters in the story. Through these descriptions and 5. Interpret Makassar's cultural expression from verbal and expressions, researchers, and literary readers trace cultural non-verbal descriptions of the fictional characters of Datu attitudes which subsequently produce ethnic cultural motifs Museng and Adearangang in fictional story. [7]. Metalanguage refers to the second meaning which consists of RESULTS AND DISCUSSION expressions of connotation and myth as cultural attitudes. The novel Datu Museng and Maipa Deapati is the imaginary The second meaning according to Barthes [8] is a meaning result of a Makassar ethnic writer named Verdy R. Baso [5]. in culture which includes beliefs, attitudes, frameworks, and This novel actually has a historical background of heroic ideologies. The meaning of this culture is connotative so it figures in the ethnic Makassar group named I Baso requires a deep interpretation and understanding. Meaning in Mallarangang which is now enshrined as one of the street cultural myths is at the level of connotation so it needs to be names in Makassar City, namely Jalan Datu Museng. Verdy normalized or naturalized in order to reflect the views or R. Baso then described the life story, determination, thoughts of a particular society. In general it can be obedience, loyalty, and sacrifice of the figure of Datu understood that the second meaning is an explanation of the Museng imaginatively, a knight laden with actions and meaning of connotative expressions that connect the sign principles of Makassar cultural values. Datu Museng and his with the ideology of a particular

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